City Hall Flashcards
1
Q
How many structures were built at the location of City Hall?
A
4
2
Q
What were the 4 different buildings there?
A
The tank house, a market house, the old city hall, and the present city hall
3
Q
What is there to know about the tank house? (4 points)
A
- built in 1822
-burned in 1850 - large water reservoir
- suspected arson because the city wanted to make a new market house
4
Q
what is there to know about the market house? (4 points)
A
- built in 1850
- burned down in 1867
- also suspected arson
- vendors would have traveled by river or by horse drawn sleighs (depending on the time of year)
5
Q
What is there to know about the First City Hall? (3 points)
A
- built in 1867
- burned down in 1875
- market house and city hall combo
6
Q
what is there to know about the current city hall?
A
- built in 1876
- second empire style, trending in the 1870s and 1880s
- basement was market, middle city hall and top was an opera house
- Oldest City Hall still in use in Atlantic Canada
7
Q
What is the square in front of city hall called?
A
Phoenix Square
8
Q
when was the clock installed on City Hall?
A
1878
